Dr. Miguel de la Garza is a board-certified physician who practices multidisciplinary interventional pain management in four offices in the Tampa Bay area. He performs interventional pain procedures, specializing in minimally invasive surgical decompression and/or fusion of herniated discs and spinal stenosis, implantable intrathecal pumps, spinal cord stimulation, and peripheral nerve stimulation. Dr. de la Garza has published numerous research papers and abstracts and has presented at regional and national academic conferences. He has lectured on the topics of anesthesia, interventional pain medicine, and addiction both nationally and internationally. He is also a consultant for numerous pharmaceutical and medical device companies.

He is the President Elect for the Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, having received the service award in first year of being a board member and was awarded Pain Physician of the Year in 2018. He has testified to Florida Medicaid Formulary Committee on the topics of opioid abuse, abuse deterrence and appropriate measures to fight opioid abuse, misuse and diversion; several abuse deterrent molecules became preferred and non-abuse deterrent formulations were eliminated. He provided expert testimony on similar topics to state of Florida House and Senate helped enact laws ensuring parity of ADOs and non ADOs. He has also provided written correspondence to FDA subcommittees on topics of Abuse Deterrent Formulation standards. He is a member of Florida Society for Interventional Pain Physicians and Florida Medical Association Political Action Committee Boards. He is on the education committee which plans and oversees execution of the annual conference with over four hundred and fifty attendees, the largest symposium of it's kind with the state of Florida, and one of the largest in the United States. He has provided numerous lectures for this and other conferences over the last ten years

He is the chair person for the WCI Workers Compensation Pain Committee, which coordinates and advises organization for a yearly conference with greater than then thousand attendees yearly. He has given lectures on the topics of opioid pharmacology, abuse and addiction treatment, reduction on chronic pain after surgery and will lead a panel on medical cannabis, specialized non opioid treatments including injection treatments, ketamine infusions and how to determine causality for acute, subacute and chronic pain syndromes.

He is a member of the Florida Medical Association Political Action Committee Board, which oversees a yearly budget of approximately two million dollars. He has provided insight and expertise to the committee on the political climate regarding chronic pain, opioid, and acute pain regulations.

He is contributing author and editor for pain components of CME course and textbook: "Essential Elements of Personalized Analgesic Medicine." CME course is provided by LP3 Network internationally in United States, Canada and Australia, subsidiary of Medisca International. He a medical advisory board member of Aeon Health Care.

Dr. de la Garza received a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Texas Lutheran College in Seguin, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 2001 and performed his anesthesia residency at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care from 2001 to 2005. He then completed an interventional pain medicine fellowship at The Cleveland Clinic, in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, finishing in 2006.

Dr. Carter is a Board Certified Physician with 26 years' experience as an Anesthesiologist, Anti-Aging doctor, Cosmetic surgeon, and Functional and Integrative medicine practitioner licensed in multiple states. Dr. Carter also offers concierge level coaching and care to patients domestically and internationally via telemedicine virtual consultation sessions. Dr. Carter seeks to find the Root cause of what is interfering with the body's ability to stave off disease syndromes and he provides the combination of natural supplements, effective diet and eating strategies as well as effective exercise regimens that enhance the ability of his patients to detoxify, rejuvenate and regenerate for optimal health.